Eugene pringle



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E. PRINGLE.

l GGNNRGTING DRVIGR PoR STRAPS 0R OTHER ARTIGLRS. No. 360,913l PatentedApr. 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PAT-ENT QEEICE.

EUGENEPEIGLE, or GLovEnsvILLE, NEW YORK.

.CONNECTING DEVICE FORS-TRAPS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,913, dated April12, 1887.

Application filed May 6, 1886.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE PEINGLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Glovyersville, in the county of Fulton and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Securingthe Attaching Tags, Straps, and other Attaching Appendages ofHorse-Blankets, Carriage Curtains and Aprons, Girths, and otherArticles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for holding attachedtags, straps, and other appendages to horse-blankets, carriagecurtains,girths, and other articles; and it consists of the parts and elementsand combinations of parts or elements', hereinafter` particularlydescribed, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and eiective means forsecuring tags, straps, and other attaching appendages of articlesheretofore attached or secured by buckles. I attain these objects by themeans illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l`is aplan view of my improved device secured to the corners of ahorse-blanket and connected-together. Fig. 2 is a sectional view takenat line 1 in F-ig. l. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the same applied toacurtain orapron of a carriage. Fig. 4. is a sectional view ofthesame,taken at line 2 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sec-V tional-viewtakenat'line 3 in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the device modifiedin form vfor attaching or connecting the opposite end portions ofstraps. Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken at line 4. in Fig. 6.Fig. 8

is a view of a stud secured to a bow of a carriage for use with theother parts in this invention; and Fig. 9 is a sectional view of a bowof a carriage-top, having secured in it the stud employed in thisinvention for use to secure carriage-curtains containing my improvedfastener.

The sameletters of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

In the drawings,A A', Figs. l and 2, represent the corner portions ofahorse-blanket to which my invention is applied.

B is the stud-holding piece, secured to one portion, as A, of theblanket. This piece is made of leather or equivalent material andsecured to portion B by rivets a a, or stitching or other equivalentmeans for uniting such pieces. Firmly secured or attached to thisSerialNo. 0l,37l. (No molel.)

piece B is the stud C, which may be made hollow or solid in form, andsecured to piece B by being riveted to the same, preferably, or anyknown manner of attachment of this stud C to piece B can be employed.Stud G is provided witha semi-spherical head, c, and an annular concavegroove, c", below said head. If preferred, Vthe head c can be made witha conical form.

D is the clasping button strap, made of leather or equivalent material,and with any form preferred or best adapted or suited tothe article usedwith. This strap D is secured to piece B by rivet b, or equivalentfastening device or means.

E is a clasp-button,made with aform ofconstruction of parts which willadmit its being secured by riveting or equivalent means to st-rap D.This clasp-button can be of any known construction in which acatching-piece, e, within the button, will engage with the notch orgroovel c in stud C.' Though the clasp-button E shown in the drawings isconstructed to embody certain improvements invented by myself, andforming the subjectmatter of another patent, yet, as above stated, otherforms of claspbuttons can be used,if preferred, with thestud C, whenadapted to operate with the semispherical or conical head and concavegroove in said stud. When the strap D is thrown up, as indotted lines inFig. 2, the button-clasp E will be out of engagement with stud C,andwhen pressed down to position of full lines the said buttonclasp will bein engagement with said stud. F is a tag or strap, (shown in Figs. l and2,) to be secured to portion A' of the horse-blanket or other article byrivets f, though it can be secured by stichings or other equivalentmeans. This strap is made of leather or other suitable material, and hasmade in its free end F perforations g, oneA or more, of diametercorresponding with that of stud C, which said perforation is to receive.

It willbe observed that the clasp-button E is so located in strap or tagD that its central .iper-foration, s, will be relatively in line withthe stud C, so that the latter will enter the said perforation and holewith the button,and when the draft or pull on stud C through strap ortag F is had this stud will be held equally from its base and top endsby the pieces B and D, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4.

In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 isshown the same device,

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modified in part to adapt it for use with a strap provided with a numberoi' studholding pertbrations for increasing or lessening its measure ofextension, as may be required, as in the case of girths, surcingles,straps of valises, and other articles. In this modification piece D hasits rear end portion extended to a sufcent width to produce in itscross-direction a loop, D', when said pieccis secured by rivets b 11, orequivalent astening, to piece B at points relatively outside the linesof outer edges of strap F, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5,so that iis loopportion D will form abillet or loop to receive the entering end of strapF, which is provided with several perforatious, g, as shown in Figs. 3and 4.

In Figs. 6 and this device is shown to be used for connecting the twoends of a strapsuch as a shawl-strap or a belt-in which both ends of thesame are provided with stud-holding perforations g, as shown in Fig. 6,andthe pieces B and D are formed and united, substantially as shown inFigs. 3 and f1 and 5,with the loop portion D ot' piece D raised abovepiece B sutiicientl y to receive the thicknesses of the two ends, F F2,ot strap F, as shown in Fig. 7. In this moditieation the piece B,together with its associated piece D, is free to be moved in eitherdirection on strap F, and when each end of said strap is provided withseveral perforations g the compass of the strap or belt can be increasedorlessened from both ends, instead of from but one end, as heretofore instraps or belts employing buckles.

In Fig. S the clasp-button strap is shown to be arranged relativelytransverse to the direction of the strap F and piece B, and strap Fisprovided witha series ot' perforations, g, while piece B is shown to beprovided with a billet or loop, D.

In Fig. 9 stud C is shown to be made willi a tang, C', which is drivenin the wood ot' a carriage-bow, H, when used with the other palts ot' mydevice. When this stud C is secured to the wood piece I-I, or itsequivalent, the piece B will be dispensed with and wood piece or bow I-Iwill be the equivalent to the stud-holding strap for operation with studC,and the clasp-button strap D for holding with a strap or tag, F. lVhenthis device is used to secure carriage-curtains to their bows, the bowII,or equivalent picce,is used for holding` the studs C, and theclasp-button strap D will be secured to said bow by a rivet or screw,which will operate substantially as rivet b in Figs. l and 2 to holdstrap D and its attached clasp-button E in connection with the bow, thesame as strap D is held with piece B in Figs. l and 2, when the strap ortag F, secured to the curtain,will be connected with stud C the same asshown in Fig. 2.

lhis improved device, in its essential parts, consists ot' the stud C,secured as above described, and the clasp-button E, attached to a strap,which is ilexibly connected with the piece-holding stud C, together withthe strap F, having perforations g, one or more, operating with saidstud.

In some cases the parts B and D may be made of metal, with the latteriiexibiy con nected with the former by a joint. The stud C is to beconnected with its holding-piece B in any suitable manner.

In some cases, as in the use of myinventiou for securing curtains andaprons of carriages with the parts or devices they are usually connectedwith, the stud can be secured to the part or piece or device the curtainis to be connected with, instead of to a piece, as to B, and the tag Fcan be dispensed with by having perforations g made in the borderportion of the curtain or apron, when the catching device E, by itsflexibly-connected piece D, will be made to engage with the head of thestud, as above described, to lock the curtain securely with the stud andbetween its base and the catching device.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The means for fastening at will one article, thing, or part withanother article, thing, or part, consisting in the combination, with astud provided with a holding-notch below its head and secured with or toone of the articles, things, or parts to be connected, of thecoactingcatching device E, having a flexible connection with the same article,thing, or part and adapted to engage with said stud, and perforations g,made with or in the other piece or part to be connected and capable atwill ol" being engaged with the stud between thcbase of the same and thecoacting catching device E, and be locked from slipping oi'f from saidstud, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A device for connecting and disconnecting articles or parts at will,consisting of stud C and strap D, secured at one end to the piece orpart holding said stud and having near its opposite or free end thecatching device E, so situated in relation to said stud that its openingwill receive the latter, and the perforation g, made in or with theother piece or part to be connected, so as to be engaged at will withthe stud and be secu red therewith by the catching device operating withthe latter, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In devices for connecting at will articles, pieces, or parts to betemporarily held together, the combination, with stud C, abovedescribed, secured to holding-piece B, or its described equivalent, andpiece D, provided with catching device E, and secured to piece B, of thetag, strap, or piece F, provided with perforationsg, one or more, andconnected with Y a piece or part to be connected with the other piece orpart having said stud, all substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

EUGENE PRIN GLE.

lVitncsses:

ALEX. SELKIRK, MADIsoN D. SHIPMAN.

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